Mityana Blog

More news from Uganda – firstly from Dodie: News may hit you about riots,,, we are fine and well  away from anything. No rioting here and all very calm. No trouble only the odd motor bike and cheering Final day […]

Wednesday Namutamba Disabled Children’s hospital and Church Office After waking up to a delicious breakfast, we were told that Dodie had already left to go to the Church Office. We followed soon after and were greeted by prayers which preceded […]

Tuesday After a scrumptious breakfast at the Enro hotel, we loaded into the buses and made our way to Afinnet to help out with painting and cleaning. We spent a few hours there and got very messy, spilling more paint […]

More news -’this time by text from Rachel: Internet seems to be down.great day painting yesterday and lots of fun and games at the orphanage. Hottest day so far, first bedroom inspection – evidence of hand washed socks etc !!!

15th February Today we woke up to a delicious breakfast prepared for us at wonderful Enro hotel. Soon after we got back on the mini busses and made our way to Makonzi  Primary School, SMBs partner school. When we arrived […]

The following has been received from the 2016 team in Mityana. Day 1 We woke up in banana village, and saw some monkeys and puppies. We had breakfast; juice, cereal, toast, sausage, egg and home grown bananas. After that we […]

Sharon Perks made her jump for Bulera in January. She said, “Well we were delayed by 24 hours due to rain but instead I did the skydive actually on my birthday. It was amazing!“ Enclosed some pictures to give a sense […]

Work on the kindergarten in Mityana has finally got underway! The following note was received from Frederick in Mityana who will be managing the project. Hey Dodie Yesterday I completed site preparations that I had started on towards the end […]

Woolton Hill resident and teacher Sharon Perks will be undertaking a sky dive on 9 January 2016 to help raise money for her link school Bulera. To help raise funds she has set up a donations page on Virgin Money […]

Following a visit in February 2015 of a number of  Whitchurch Deanery teachers to Mityana (with British Council funding), a reciprocal trip took place in May with primary school teachers returning to visit Whitchurch. The February trip involved a teacher from […]